IEP Chandigarh, November 10

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the State on Thursday nabbed an Inspector of Police Bakhshish Kaur, posted as Incharge/SHO police station women cell, Fazilka red handed for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.

          Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the VB said the accused SHO has been arrested on the complaint of village Gurdial Singh of Mandi Hazoor Singh, Fazilka.

Giving details he said the complainant has approached the VB and alleged that the above said police official was demanding a bribe of Rs. 40,000 for taking action against the culprits who have abused her daughter but deal was struck at Rs. 20,000. The complainant has further alleged that the SHO has already taken Rs. 8,000 as a bribe in two instalments and demanding Rs 10,000 as a third instalment.

            The spokesperson added that after verifying this complaint, a VB team from Ferozepur unit laid a trap and the accused police official was caught red handed taking bribe money of Rs. 10,000 in the presence of two official witnesses. He informed that a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused the woman SHO at VB police station Ferozepur and further investigation was under progress.

IEP Chandigarh, November 10

The Haryana government has invited comments and suggestions from the departments regarding the transfer drive of Group D employees who are covered under the Haryana Group D Employees (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2018. In a letter issued by Chief Secretary Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal to all administrative secretaries, comments and suggestions have been sought latest by November 25, 2022 through e-mail at hrdharyana@gmail.com and hrd-goh@hry.gov.in or through post addressed to Special Secretary to Government of Haryana, Human Resources Department (Common Cadre -I Branch), Haryana Civil Secretariat.

        Giving information in this regard, an official spokesperson said that the state government has received a large number of requests of newly recruited Group D employees from time to time regarding change of their post or the department on grounds of technical/educational qualifications. Keeping this in view, comments and suggestions have been invited regarding the transfer drive of Group D employees and a concept note has also been prepared.

        The note states that the state government vide notification dated March 28, 2018, enacted the Haryana Group D Employees (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2018 (referred to as the Group D Act) in which a Common Cadre of all the Group D posts of all the departments of the Haryana government was created. Thereafter, more than 18,000 posts were advertised and filled up by direct recruitment through Haryana Staff Selection Commission.

        In this common cadre, some of the posts were of semi-skilled nature and others were of unskilled nature. It has been observed that some persons appointed in Group-D are facing difficulties in performing their duties efficiently. Further, some of the employees have been posted at far flung places from their hometown and keeping in view their hardship, the government has decided to launch a transfer drive to give an opportunity to all the Group D employees of common cadre for appointment/adjustment in an office near their hometown and on a suitable post.

Purpose of transfer drive to remove difficulty of posts or station of posting of employees

        The spokesperson further said that the main objective of this transfer drive is to remove hardship of the employees regarding their station of posting, and also adjustment on the posts other than the posts on which they do not deem themselves fit for appointment. For this purpose, each employee will be at liberty to select three districts where he/she wants to be posted/transferred. Further, the employees can also select a maximum of 50 posts on which they do not deem themselves fit to work out of the list of all Group D posts. In this drive, efforts will be made to transfer the employees at any one of the three districts selected by them on priority basis and try not to appoint them to the posts on which they do not want to work. However, it will not be guaranteed that the employees will be able to get the station of their choice or avoid the posts they do not deem fit for themselves.

 Eligibility to participate in transfer drive

        The spokesperson said that in this transfer drive, all the Group D employees appointed after the enactment of Group D Act and posted in any department of the government are eligible to participate. However, the Group D employees posted in any Statutory Body, Board, Corporation, Public Sector Undertaking and Constitutional Body are not eligible to participate in this drive.

        Only those eligible employees who want to change their station or their post, and participate online on the portal within 15 days from the date fixed by the government; will be considered eligible for transfer drive. The employees, who will fail to register and apply on the portal by the said date, will not be considered eligible. The concept note include the criteria for transfer from one station to another or from one post to another, general instructions and necessary procedures and detailed format.

IEP Chandigarh, November 10

Haryana Police has busted an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) fraudsters gang with the arrest of two accused in Palwal district. Police has also recovered 209 ATM cards and a Paytm swipe machine from their possession.

Disclosing this here today, the Haryana Police spokesperson informed that the gang used to change ATM cards of innocent people in the name of assisting them and then commit the crime.

On November 9, 2022, Dharamvir Singh, a native of Uttrakhand presently living in NIT Faridabad had lodged a complaint that he went to an ATM to check his account balance. After some time, he received two SMSs about deduction of Rs 5000 and Rs 10000 from the bank account. Upon checking, he found that his ATM card has changed and fraudsters withdrew money.

Taking cognizance of the complaint, a police team based on the intelligence and other inputs arrested two accused with in few hours identified as Akram and Mohammad, both residents of Palwal district.

 Police also recovered 209 ATM cards belonging to nationalized and other private banks and a BharatSwipe machine from them.

During the probe, it was revealed that both had a criminal past and had executed many incidents of ATM card fraud in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana’s Palwal since 2014. Both fraudsters make people a victim of their fraud by putting money in a fake account through the swipe machine and then withdrawing the money. Six cases of similar fraud were found to be registered in different police stations against accused Akram in Ujjain (MP).

The accused will be taken on remand to find out their involvement in other cases, he added

IEP Chandigarh, November 10

 The efforts of the Manohar Lal-led government in making Haryana a farmer-oriented state have brought positive outcomes; as Haryana has been awarded the India Agribusiness Best State Award- 2022 by the Union Government for its outstanding contribution in the agriculture sector. Issued by the Indian Chamber for Food and Agriculture, Haryana has been accorded the award for its distinguished contribution in the areas of agriculture friendly policies and programmes, production, inputs, technologies, marketing, value addition, infrastructure, and exports in the state.

Expressing gratitude to the Centre government, Chief Minister Sh. Manohar Lal said that the effort is now to make Haryana a farmer-oriented state from agriculture-oriented. “For this, along with modernity in agriculture, the big goal is to increase the income of the farmers. While the state government is buying more than 14 crops at MSP, it is also encouraging the farmers to adopt modern farming,” he said.

Sh. Manohar Lal said that to get more yield at less cost, the farmers should adopt crop diversification and move towards natural farming. “The State Government has taken several steps to improve the agriculture and horticulture sector including proper use of water for irrigation and adoption of less water consuming crops by the farmers,” he added. The Chief Minister also congratulated the officials and the employees along with the people of the state for the achievement.

It is noteworthy that the state government is paying special attention to promote agribusiness and make farmers self-reliant. For this, companies in the agriculture sector, farmer’ producer organisations have been identified; so that by organizing the farmers, the system of their production and marketing can be ensured collectively. Also, special emphasis is being laid on reducing the cost of agriculture and horticulture by providing investment, technology and new equipment.